By Noel Coward
Directed by Jim Schneider
Featuring Kaelen Strouse and Bonnie Hilton
Chicago’s newest classical theatre, the Dead Writers Theatre Collective, presents Noel Coward’s rarely produced comedy, The Vortex, a play about sexual vanity, narcissism and drug abuse of the upper English classes in the roaring 20s. Nicky Lancaster, a role created by and which made Noel Coward an overnight star, comes home from Paris in 1925 with a cocaine addiction to discover that his middle-aged mother has taken a boy his age as her lover, much to the hurt of his father . Drugs, bisexuality, and sharp comic wit are the hallmarks of this rarely produced Coward classic. Artistic Director Jim Schneider directs, Kaelen Strouse and Bonnie Hilton star.